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Last week, in the letters column of the Daily Telegraph and elsewhere, a chorus of puzzled listeners cited examples of peculiar BBC enunciation, which, taken together, added up to a handy glossary of current radio speech in Britain. Samples: Miss Treeden-Britain's Foreign Secretary...
Last week there were signs that recriminations between the allies were dying down and new ways of getting together were being sought. De Castries' last stand had stirred Britain's admiration. Wrote London's influential Daily Telegraph: "The local lesson of Dienbienphu is that the Red Delta must be defended, not abandoned." Added the Spectator: "The fact that Britain and the U.S. ... decided not to attempt the virtually impossible-the relief of Dienbienphu-does not mean that they should refuse to attempt the possible-the effective defense of large remaining areas of Indo-China...
...good company, there is no mystery in good public relations. The secret is simply to tell all it can about itself. One of the first to realize this was American Telephone & Telegraph, which staffs its public-relations department with ex-newspapermen and experienced company hands. Five of A.T. & T.'s subsidiary Bell presidents once headed its public-relations program. A.T. & T. capitalizes on its own greatest asset. Instead of answering stockholders' complaints or other communications by letter, it calls them...
...American Telephone & Telegraph, which installed 400,000 phones in the first quarter (140,000 less than a year ago), reported earnings of $110 million, up 8% from 1953. Furthermore, recent cuts in excise taxes, said President Cleo F. Craig, "will stimulate increased telephone usage and particularly more long distance calling...
COLOR TV will be available in more than 60 cities by the end of this year, treble the current number. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. is installing equipment that will bring color to more than 40 new cities as soon as local stations buy transmitters and receivers...